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This rendition of Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto is, without reservation, excellent, the recorded sound capturing Prokofiev’s open orchestral textures. Zimmermann and Jansons make an ideal pair in a performance which succeeds triumphantly in balancing elegance and irony. The orchestra accompanies with an instinctive feel for the work’s chamber-music scale, and neither conductor nor soloist gives in to the temptation to inflate the rhetoric or add unnecessary Romantic gestures.

– BBC Music MagazineThis rendition of Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto is, without reservation, excellent, the recorded sound capturing Prokofiev’s open orchestral textures. Zimmermann and Jansons make an ideal pair in a performance which succeeds triumphantly in balancing elegance and irony. The orchestra accompanies with an instinctive feel for the work’s chamber-music scale, and neither conductor nor soloist gives in to the temptation to inflate the rhetoric or add unnecessary Romantic gestures.

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